<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: arthurjj</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=arthurjj</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:57:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=arthurjj" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arthurjj in "Felony Bench"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Agreed they’re definitely underperforming compared to us meatbags according to the famous book “Three felonies a day”. But I don’t think that’s the point the artist was trying to make</p>
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<p>As an art piece this is delightful. But it of reminds me of the @patio11 saying "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero" the fact that Google and Meta have had  0 and 1 incidents is a bad sign for them.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/" rel="nofollow">https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra...</a></p>
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<p>I'm sympathetic to the points he makes. But it's hard to take it seriously when he makes his money selling <i>marketing</i> and he's complaining about <i>cpc advertising</i>. It's like if a horse breeder were complaining about cars</p>
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<p>A few years ago a software engineer asked a few Chemical/Civil/Mechanical engineers and the majority of "real" engineers seemed to think we were [1]. I'm not aware of a better study but happy to be proven wrong, since I generally refer to myself as a Software Developer<p>[1] <a href="https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/" rel="nofollow">https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/are-we-really-engineers/</a></p>
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<p>> I'm an SRE and I think it's quite likely the best infra language I've ever seen.<p>I only worked with 4-5 SREs and they all grudgingly tolerated it. What did you like about it, compared to other infra languages you've used professionally?</p>
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<p>I think the internal web tooling was pretty good compared to anyone but AWS circa 2016 but by 2020 when I left it felt a bit antiquated. Similarly they didn't have linters rolled out until it was industry standard iirc.<p>But BCL is still the worst language I've ever used.</p>
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<p>My only commentary is that I prefer "meat puppet" as it's an existing term, which already means something very similar[1], and is a bit more derisive<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meat_puppet" rel="nofollow">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meat_puppet</a></p>
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<p>Real, although the speed of the development in the novel is fictionalized<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatchet_(novel)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatchet_(novel)</a></p>
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<p>>And all science fiction is, in one way or another, technological. Even when it’s written by people who don’t know what the word means.<p>I think this goes too far and then <i>everything</i> is science fiction? She talks about low tech. Is <i>Hatchet</i> science fiction?</p>
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<p>To be clear my issue is with the reporting, not the policies<p>Starting your article with "We expose Big Food’s 239 lawsuits against life-saving policies" especially when a quick google shows it doesn't appear to work [1], isn't good reporting<p>Similarly "such as" in the quoted sentence implies that they're leaving out a public policy, I have to assume it's in one of 1/5 cases the government hasn't won. But they don't talk about that<p>[1] <a href="https://archive.is/UPdWg#selection-1493.0-1498.0" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/UPdWg#selection-1493.0-1498.0</a></p>
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<p>> Adversarial advocacy is core to most (western?) societies... It's exhausting that _everything_ is litigated. But I still prefer it to authoritarianism.<p>This is definitely an great way to think about it. Us fighting about it (I hope) leads to a better outcome, even if it's frustrating at the time<p>Me calling out the NGO is this I hold them to a <i>different</i> standard industry groups. For context I give a few percentage points of my income to charity each year, including some fairly controversial ones (Sea Shepherd, Make Sunsets, Sue the Suburbs). If you're an NGO that <i>reports</i> things and your report is wildly biased, you're a political group that's just abusing the tax code for personal gain. Occasionally that happens but we should still call it out</p>
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<p>Thanks for explaining what the lawsuits were about. I'm not sure how I feel about the actual case or even how effective I think black octagons will be. Apparently they were first done in Chile and had little to no long term effect [1]<p>My assumption that the suits were just was because the article obviously wants you to come away with a very specific conclusion, for example there is a sibling comment that seems to think these cases are about US companies. When reading clearly biased but polished, sources my default is to assume any facts they prominently leave out they did so on purpose.<p>[1] <a href="https://archive.is/UPdWg#selection-1493.0-1498.0" rel="nofollow">https://archive.is/UPdWg#selection-1493.0-1498.0</a></p>
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<p>The article says 80% of the lawsuits were in Mexico and ~3% were in America.</p>
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<p>I'm about as hippie with my food as you can get, but this "article" is badly written propaganda that conceals more than it reveals. Half way down the article you learn that ~80% (193 out of 239) of the lawsuits are in Mexico and<p>> many of them were against the country’s labelling regulation. Quinto Elemento Lab reveals the companies’ arguments: that the laws were a violation of their constitutional rights<p>But the article doesn't say what those rights are, which makes me think the lawsuits were just</p>
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<p>I try to buy as many shirts as possible from bands I like and this post reminded me to go look again.  I listen to a lot of metal and punk and the problem is most the shirts are either black, which overheat you in SoCal, or have designs that are aggressively ugly [1].<p>I wish more bands hired better designers or at least had shirts I wouldn't overheat in<p>[1] I own and wear this one so it's not always a deal breaker <a href="https://merchbar.imgix.net/product/174/7292/6127313518766/Zsk4ONDQpinkwhiteBrokenWorldTee.jpg?quality=60&auto=compress,format&w=1200&h=630" rel="nofollow">https://merchbar.imgix.net/product/174/7292/6127313518766/Zs...</a></p>
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<p>I missed that thread when it came out, it's really a wild read. The difference between how people describe her vs how she's normally portrayed in the media is really startling</p>
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<p>I like this summary <a href="https://www.andymasley.com/writing/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake/" rel="nofollow">https://www.andymasley.com/writing/the-ai-water-issue-is-fak...</a><p>And this is a reply to her comment about water usage where it becomes clear she's not arguing in good faith. <a href="https://x.com/AndyMasley/status/1990498830131888173" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/AndyMasley/status/1990498830131888173</a></p>
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<p>I think part of it is she had excellent PR skills and a dedicated fan base. I was at Google when she quit, working in ML, and hadn't heard of her until the story broke. I remember there were a large number of Memegen posts about it, but no one I spoke with knew about her, so I assumed it was brigading.<p>I think she's since since lost a lot of her allure, especially when she didn't change her mind when the facts about the AI water usage changed 1000x</p>
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<p>It might take a while for people to see how the model is useful to them, or to figure out how to make it useful or the capabilities weren't there ye. My mother  tried ChatGPT in '23 and thought it was useless, she now uses it regularly,  because it's improved and she knows how to use it better.</p>
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<p>> More than 30 percent of the US working-age population is using AI [meaning about 70% isn’t], an increase of 3 percentage points from the end of 2025<p>This makes me less bearish on the AI investments that are being made, if 70% of the working age population isn't using AI then there still is a lot of growth.  
The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed (yet)</p>
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